Old Movie 1937, in the Soviet Union in the midst of Stalin's terror, and in Germany in a town near Munich in the foster family comes 9-year-old girl! Her mother turned out to be a communist, her brother died, and the new family so needs money from her allowance!
It cannot be said that Liesel had a bad time on Heavenly Street, not at all, and even the fact that she could not read at all did not prevent her from finding a friend - Rudy! Especially since the adoptive father teaches the girl to read with the help of the only available book - the directory of the gravedigger!
Then there will be everything in Liesel’s life: stealing, war, saving a loved one almost from the clutches of the SS and Death, many, many deaths! But that first book, the directory of the gravedigger, will predetermine her main hobby - the word. What is written by someone else and what is written by yourself!
I have not read Zuzak’s book and therefore have to accept the film without taking into account the original and perhaps the claims on the plot should be attributed not to the director, but to the author of the source! We have before us a classic film about the forces resisting Hitler, such a good literate film that knocks out a tear! A boy who dies with words of love on his lips, a girl who falls in love with a beautiful Jew (almost one in one of Polanski’s Pianist), and the solidarity of all good people against all bad people! An all-French story about the Resistance! But Munich is never Paris (or even Provence), and after Tarantino to watch such films seriously does not work. So it seems that now the next brilliant dialogue will begin, and it does not begin and does not begin!
Before us is an average film no longer needed genre and if not for the glory of the book, no one would have noticed it yet!
7 out of 10
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